Hi, welcome back, I 'm a donkey . In 2023, the price of CPU and graphics card is getting higher and higher, but the price of SSD will continue to drop. We agreed that Bonnie Channel will unbox more components this year , so let's unbox ourselves today. The products that will definitely be used and often replenished regularly are SSDs. Recently, PCIe 3.0 SSDs have seen a fairly normal price cut . This wave , even the high- priced PCIe 4.0 SSDs a few years ago, has also joined the battlefield . This is one of the more popular ones for a while. It is the Acer Predator GM7000 series. The paper specifications are very beautiful . The PCIe 4.0 specification reaches 7400MB/s read and 6700MB/s write TLC. It also provides a five-year warranty. What is more interesting is the 1TB and 2TB versions . The current lowest price came to 1999 respectively . (Slip of mouth) 3999, two price bands, the price is also very beautiful. We bought the 2TB version. Checkout 3999 deducted 5% from the bank to give back to PChome. I was late and gave 100 cash points. The whole deduction is about 3699. But everyone should pay attention to the preferential price of GM7000 is not normal. You still have to wait for the discount and don’t buy it at a high point. But how is the actual performance? We will still measure the key performance in detail in this episode. Get ready, then we will start . I saw that the color box design of the boxed GM7000 is pretty good. There are also marked specifications on the box , including the PCIe Gen 4x4 interface, which can achieve 7400MB/s reading and 6700MB/s writing. It is also printed with a five-year warranty , but be careful Oh, when buying an SSD, don’t just look at how long the warranty is , but also look at the TBW , which is the limit on the total amount of writing. These will be marked on the official website or the manual . For GM7000, the 1TB version provides 5 years or 600TBW. 2TB is also 5 years , but the total amount has come. 1300TBW , so the judgment of over-warranty is very simple . It depends on whether the 5 years arrive first or your write volume arrives first . There is also a sign on the Predator that the storage is authorized by Acer to BIWIN. The contents of the box are simple but the details are enough. Sincerely, in addition to the m.2 SSD body , there is also a heat sink, a screw , and a metal heat sink as a gift in a separate box. You can attach the SSD with the heat sink that comes with it , but be careful if your motherboard is in m. .2 There is already a metal heat sink cover on the slot , so just remove the cover , plug in the m.2 socket, fix the tail screw , and remember to tear off the plastic film of the heat sink behind the cover and then put the cover on You can just lock it back. This small heat sink can be used if your motherboard does not have a heat dissipation design. In addition, the thickness of this heat sink is about 1 cm . If you want to install it on the PS5, you can test it . Well, there is no way. It’s worth it One thing to mention is that the sticker on the GM7000 is single-sided and attached to the back, so you won’t be able to take it off , and the sticker is stuck on the heat sink. This is an embarrassing problem . The small details are considered good. Here I still want to remind everyone There is a risk of breaking the warranty if you tear it off , so if you have no special needs , it is not recommended to touch this sticker . There are two Micron 3D TLC NAND Flash on the front and two more on the back , so there are four in total , and one is a 512GB controller . Let’s zoom in and see that InnoGrit ’s IG5236CAA is paired with a total of two South Asian caches on the front and back. Then let’s test it directly on the machine. According to international practice, let’s take a look at the CPU part of the test platform. The Intel Core i9-13900K motherboard is used. It is MSI Z690 EDGE D4 32GB, four pieces of RAM with a total of 128GB, and finally put on an RTX 4090. The tested SSD will be installed in the third slot at the bottom of the Z690 , and the m.2 heat dissipation cover that comes with the motherboard will be covered. The whole process is tested in the chassis It is more in line with the installation situation of ordinary users. In order to let everyone compare the data performance more intuitively , we also took out the long-term king of PCIe 4.0 Samsung 980 Pro 2TB for comparison . It is a pity that there is no 990 Pro in hand , but because the 980 Pro is a different period. The PCIe 4.0 product is much earlier than GM7000 , so the writing speed is not as fast as GM7000 , but it is used as a reference group , mainly to let everyone refer to whether the performance of GM7000 is up to standard , not to compare the performance of the two. The 990 Pro, the new guardian of the throne, is waiting there. Let ’s run CrystalDiskMark GM7000 first. When the disk is empty, it can read 7035MB/s and write 6688MB/s sequentially. The speed is very fast. It has reached the level that PCIe 4.0 should have. The reading is about the same , but the writing is a little bit worse. Under half of the disk, the reading and writing are slightly affected , but they are still at the level that they should be. You can see that the 980 Pro, as the previous generation flagship of Samsung, is in the Q1T1. The reading performance is still much higher than that of GM7000, which should not be underestimated . Next, we saw the test of AS SSD 1GB GM7000, no matter whether the disk is full or empty , there is not much difference in data. The performance of AS SSD GM7000 is also online, but we increase the strength of the test . The performance of the 10GB GM7000 is still good. Compare the performance of the 980 Pro GM7000 next to it. The performance of the GM7000 is also online. After reading the speed test results , we will test the game performance. Here we use the 3DMark hard disk test . A total of three games and four simulations will be tested. Scenario First, see the difference between the empty disk and the half disk when loading Battlefield 5 GM7000, probably due to the test error, but there is about a 10% difference compared to 980 Pro, and then load Call of Duty. The decisive moment: Black Ops 4 GM7000 vs. 980 Pro There is a difference of about 20%. Even the performance of 980 Pro under the half disk is still 10% better. The game is loaded here. Finally, the difference between empty disk and half disk is acceptable when the game is loaded here. But compared with 980 Pro. There is still a gap of about 17%. Overall , although the 980 Pro is already an old flagship, the specifications on paper look relatively ordinary , but there must be a reason for sitting on the throne for so long. But having said that , although the 980 Pro is slightly better in terms of game loading But it must be said that the performance of GM7000 is not bad at all. The performance of PCIe 4.0 is already very good. Especially considering our starting price , the CP value is still quite high . The test items other than loading the game are almost completely surpassed by the 980 Pro. For example, the speed of recording games is 7% faster and installed . The game speed is 10% faster , the storage game speed is 3% faster , and the mobile game speed is 28% faster , so it can be seen that in this relatively simple writing and reading scenario , GM7000 can play a stronger peak performance However, the total score of 980 Pro is still a little higher. It scored 3034 points , while GM7000 scored 2995 points. In the load test, we first tested the ATTO Disk Benchmark test. For a more serious test, we directly transferred from the PCIe 4.0 hard disk to GM7000 and 980 Pro respectively for writing test. The composition of the 860GB file is relatively complicated but reasonable, and it can better simulate general usage scenarios . Because it is a video project. Therefore, there will be all kinds of pictures, audio-visual projects and record files temporarily stored in the system. There are large files, small files and ultra-small files , which are quite valuable. Here are the results directly . Let’s first look at the benchmark 980 Pro project that transfers 860GB. The whole process takes 10 minutes and 15 seconds. At 5 minutes and 21 seconds, the SSD reached 60 degrees . The highest temperature occurred at 9 minutes and 30 seconds . At this time, the SSD reached 66 degrees. After that, the writing also remained at around 66 degrees , and did not continue to rise. The same is true for GM7000. It took 9 minutes and 18 seconds to transfer the 860GB project . It was faster and did not reach 60 degrees until 7 minutes and 10 seconds. However, the highest temperature occurred at 9 minutes and 13 seconds , which was earlier than 980 Pro. At this time, the SSD reached 71 degrees. And in other rounds of tests , the GM7000 also has a high temperature of more than 70 degrees. The overall heat is still relatively large . If friends who often have high-speed transmission needs, the heat problem of the GM7000 should also pay special attention . Okay, let’s summarize the performance of the GM7000 as a whole. The overall speed of online is also satisfactory . The game part may be due to the optimization relationship. There is still a 10 to 20% gap with the performance of 980 Pro , but in the simple read and write transmission test, it generally performs well. It is suitable for image creation and file transfer . Of course, if you want to use it to store learning materials, it is also possible . Although it is luxurious , it is easy to use . However, the overall heat of GM7000 is still relatively obvious. Friends who have a large amount of transmission needs or care about storage heat , it is recommended to use more Good heat dissipation hardware will be more refreshing to use . Finally, let’s talk about SSD. It is a component that we usually replenish . After all, the amount of data used to produce an episode of the program can easily range from 1-200GB . So the minimum configuration of SSD in our studio is already Samsung’s. The 970 Evo and Seagate's Firecuda 510 are two relatively stable PCIe 3.0 SSDs, while the others have been replaced with PCIe 4.0. The overall usage is still relatively large, so if you have recommended SSDs, please leave a message and let us know if there are new things in the future. The test results will also be provided regularly for your reference. By the way, everyone is welcome to join our computer components discussion club. If there are any activities or discounts in the future , it will be updated on it . Join now! Alright, that’s it for this episode . 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